TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bierschenk,Thomas
AU  - Olivier de Sardan,Jean-Pierre
TI  - States at work: dynamics of African bureaucracies 
T2  - Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
SN  - 9789004264960
AV  - JQ1875 .S73 2014
U1  - 351.6 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Africa
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Economic development
KW  - State, The
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Economic policy
N1  - Includes index; Preliminary Material --; Studying the Dynamics of African Bureaucracies. An Introduction to States at Work; Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --; Ethnographies of Public Services in Africa: An Emerging Research Paradigm; Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --; Seeing like a State Agent: The Ethnography of Reform in Senegal's Forestry Services; Giorgio Blundo --; Factionalism and Staff Success in a Nigerian University: A Departmental Case Study; Chris Willott --; Working in Neopatrimonial Settings: Public Sector Staff Perceptions in Tanzania and Uganda; Ole Therkildsen --; "We make do and keep going!" Inventive Practices and Ordered Informality in the Functioning of the District Courts in Niamey and Zinder (Niger); Oumarou Hamani --; "I take an oath to the state, not the government": Career Trajectories and Professional Ethics of Ghanaian Public Servants; Carola Lentz --; "We must run while others walk": African Civil Servants, State Ideologies and Bureaucratic Practices in Tanzania, from the 1950s to the 1970s; Andreas Eckert --; Sedimentation, Fragmentation and Normative Double-Binds in (West) African Public Services; Thomas Bierschenk --; The Politics of Reform: A Case Study of Bureaucracy at the Ministry of Basic Education in Cameroon; Hélène Charton --; Building State Capacities? The Case of the Poverty Reduction Unit in Mali; Isaline Bergamaschi --; A Breeding Ground for Revenue Reliability? Cameroonian Veterinary Agents and Tax Officials in the Face of Reform; José-María Muñoz --; Old-school Bureaucrats and Technocrats in Malawi: Civil Service Reform in Practice; Gerhard Anders --; Teachers' Unions and the Selective Appropriation of Public Service Reforms in Benin; Azizou Chabi Imorou --; The State that Works: A 'Pockets of Effectiveness' Perspective on Nigeria and Beyond; Michael Roll --; The Delivery State in Africa. Interface Bureaucrats, Professional Cultures and the Bureaucratic Mode of Governance; Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan --; Index of Names and Places
N2  - States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Adopting mainly an ethnographic approach as a basis for theorizing, the authors deal with topics including: bureaucratic cultures and practical norms, operational routines in offices, career patterns and modes of appointment; how bureaucrats themselves perceive and deliver goods and services and interact with service users; the accumulation of public administration reforms and how the different bureaucratic corps react to the 'good governance' discourse and new public management policies; the consequences of these reforms for the daily working of state bureaucracies and for the civil servants' identities and modes of accountability; and the space that exists for bottom-up micro-reforms that build on local innovations or informal arrangements
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004264960
ER  -